Racist Tweet Costs 20-Year-Old Her Job

A young woman is now unemployed almost immediately after posting a very racist tweet on her Twitter page.


Erika Escalante, 20, a Texas native, was a paid intern at Isagenix, a health company located in Arizona, until this week. On Sunday she took to social media to post a picture of herself and a friend in a cotton field with the caption, “Our inner n****** came out today.”

Twitter users became outraged. Escalante quickly went back and deleted the tweet but not before it had been read and screenshotted by many Twitter users.

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